June 17, 2008
For Immediate Release
Company Name:

GMO Internet Inc.
(TSE First Section, Code: 9449）

Address:

26-1 Sakuragaoka-cho Shibuya-ku Tokyo JAPAN

Representative:

Masatoshi Kumagai, CEO and Representative Director

Contact:

Masashi Yasuda, Managing Director

Telephone:+81 3 5456 2555

URL:

http://www.gmo.jp/en

Change of GMO Internet Board of Directors Position Titles and Management Division
The GMO Internet Board of Directors has resolved to make the following changes to divisions of management
etc. These changes are effective July 1, 2008.
Title
CEO andRepresentativeDirector

NameMasatoshiKumagai

Area of Responsibility /Other Title

Former Title

Group Representative
Management of Directors,

Managing Director

Masashi Yasuda

Group Management Divisions

Strategic Planning
Department and IR Section

Group Business Relations
Managing Director

HiroyukiGroup System Support Office /Nishiyama

Innovation and Technology System
OfficeSales Divisions（Responsible for IxP Business

Executive Director

KazuhikoDepartment / Media Sales

General Manager, Media

MiyazakiDepartment / Marketing Sales

Sales Department

Department / Sales Strategy
Department）
Executive Director

Tadashi ItoDirector

Mitsuru Aoyama

Director

Kenichiro
Matsubara

General Manager, Group Business
Promotion Department
CEO, GMO Hosting & Security, Inc.
CEO, GMO Solution Partner, Inc.

Director

Koichi Tachibana

General Manager, Legal OfficeDirector

Naoya Watanabe

General Manager, Executive Office

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Director

General Manager, Corporate
Sales Department

DirectorToshihikoDirector of Personnel and General

SugayaAffairs

Director

Katsumi Arisawa

Director

Teruhiro Arai

Director

Shintaro
Takahashi

General Manager, Financial

General Manager, StrategicDepartment

Planning Department

General Manager, Investment
Strategy Office
CEO, Magclick, Inc.

(Summary of Changes)
 CEO and Representative Director, Masatoshi Kumagai has been given the additional title GroupRepresentative describing his role as representative of the GMO Internet Group.
 Managing Director, Masashi Yasuda was formerly responsible for Management of Directors, StrategicPlanning Department and IR Section; this is now the Group Management Divisions. There is no change to thescope of Mr Yasuda’s responsibilities.
 Managing Director, Hiroyuki Nishiyama takes charge of the Group Business Relations, chiefly responsible forbusiness with subsidiaries and affiliated companies, the Group System Support Office, responsible forstrengthening GMO Internet Group Systems, and the Innovation and Technology System Office, a division thatsurveys new trends in technology, researches and develops innovative Internet technology and plans anddevelops new systems.
 Executive Director, Kazuhiko Miyazaki assumes responsibility for the IxP Business Department, Media SalesDepartment, Marketing Sales Department, and Sales Strategy Department in order to consolidate andstrengthen sales departments.
 The Japanese name of the IxP Business Department was revised. There is no revision to the English name.
 Tadashi Ito (Director) is promoted to Executive Director.
 The GMO Internet corporate sales division, Corporate Sales Department has been integrated intoe-commerce solutions subsidiary GMO Solution Partner, Inc. operations in order to consolidate GMO Internet
Group e-commerce and corporate solutions businesses. As a result Director Kenichiro Matsubara, formerlySales Department General Manager will now focus his attention exclusively on the role of CEO, GMO Solution
Partner, Inc.
 The Strategic Planning Department has been renamed Financial Department. There are no changes to thescope of responsibilities of Director, Katsumi Arisawa.

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